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NVIDIA CUDA Visual Profiler
Windows XP and Vista Release Notes
Version 1.1
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PLEASE REFER EULA.txt FOR THE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR USING NVIDIA SOFTWARE.
FILES IN THE RELEASE:
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* CudaVisualProfiler\bin\cudaprof.exe : CUDA Visual Profiler executable
for Windows XP and Vista
* CudaVisualProfiler\bin\*.dll : Qt DLLs
* CudaVisualProfiler\projects : Directory containing sample
profiler projects
* CudaVisualProfiler\doc : Directory containing files for
online help and user documentation.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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* CUDA compatible NVIDIA GPU Card
* NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit
INSTALLATION AND SETUP
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Extract all files from the release zip into a directory
(referred to as )
If you do not have Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 installed you will need to
download and install the Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1 Redistributable Package.
The x86 version is available at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=200B2FD9-AE1A-4A14-984D-389C36F85647&displaylang=en
RUNNING THE CUDA Visual Profiler
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From Windows Explorer run
"\CudaVisualProfiler\bin\cudaprof.exe"
Refer the CUDA Visual Profiler cudaprof.html document for more information.
KNOWN ISSUES
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1) Note that timestamps and profiler counters are not supported in CUDA v1.0.
The CUDA Visual Profiler currenly does not detect the CUDA version and
does not disable any incompatible features.
2) Currently there is no way to pass keyboard input to a console-based CUDA
program which is run from the CUDA Visual Profiler. Therefore you must use
the command line argument "--noprompt" to run most of the CUDA SDK
samples inside the CUDA Visual Profiler.
3) Note that timestamps and profiler counters are not working
on Windows Vista. Even if these options are selected no timestamp or
profiler counter data is generated.